Authored by Jeff Louderbeck via The Epoch Times,
A bipartisan crowd of Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) proponents is set to converge on the U.S. Supreme Court steps on the morning of April 27 andbring attention to the Trump administration’s handling of glyphosate and alleged health hazards stemming from use of the chemical.
Glyphosate is the main chemical in Roundup, a product made by Bayer subsidiary Monsanto.
As the Supreme Court commences oral arguments about whether Bayer should be held legally liable for not letting its customers know that glyphosate could cause cancer, the “People vs. Poison” rally will take place outside.
“There are people from every walk of life coming to speak. This should be a bipartisan issue—to have a country where our food supply is not poisoned,”said Vani Hari, organizer of the event. Hari is a MAHA advocate who has a blog and website called “Food Babe.”
“The entire movement needs to organize and tell our stories and tell the voice of what this company is doing to our farmland, to our farmers, to our future, and to our children’s future,” Hari said.
The April 27 hearing at the Supreme Court centers around John Durnell, a Missouri man who developed non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma after years of exposure to Roundup. A jury unanimously found the exposure caused Durnell’s illness. The jury found Monsanto, which has been owned by Bayer since 2018, liable and awarded him $1.25 million after concluding that Monsanto failed to comply with state law requiring a warning about cancer risks.
Monsanto’s attorneys in court filings told the justices the case had been wrongly decided due to the legal principle of preemption, which says federal law takes precedence over state laws when the two are in conflict.
A day before the president signed an executive order relating to glyphosate, Bayer announced that Monsanto submitted aproposalfor a $7.25 billion class‑action settlement.
In 2018, Bayer completed its acquisition of Monsanto for $63 billion including debt.
Source: ZeroHedge News
